Is there a "normie" or more mainstream instance for Lemmy?

[kaboom@reddthat.com]

How does Europe treat the Romani?

[kaboom@reddthat.com]

Most of Europe is one bad economic year away from voting in Nazis (AfD and Le Pen) and the literal fascists in Italy. Not to mention Central and Eastern Europe.

[periodicallypedantic@lemmy.ca]

I mean, that probably depends on the country, right? Tbf I don't know much about them.

The point simply is that Canada isn't especially left. We can't be, since we're joined at the hip to the USA.

[sergio@slrpnk.net]

Lemmy is different from Reddit in one important way.

Reddit is a product. You install the app, you look at the ads, the mods and admins curate an endless feed of cartoons and safe ragebait and awwwunexpectedsmiles.

Lemmy is an environment. If you're passive, then any random thing may happen to you. So you have to be proactive in this environment.

• You could subscribe to communities that are non-politics/news, non-meme, non-tech, and browse these "subscribed" communities.
• You could use blocklists, as described elsewhere in this post.
• You could find an instance that does some of this work for you, by defederating and blocking certain types of opinions and behaviors. This seems to be what you want, and many people have provided suggestions.

These are all ok. But the one defining characteristic of Lemmy is that it is not just another product.

[solarpunker@slrpnk.net]

Please, Slrpnk may by attractive for different kind of people due to aesthetic and design buy its core philosophy is not Lib, is anarchy.

[fleur_@lemm.ee]

Not really, it's taken me quite a while to curtail the content I see to just stuff I actually want to see. Keyword filters are helpful tho not perfect since a lot of people will self censor and thus bypass the keyword filters.

[dingus@lemmy.world]

Until the admin of a small instance decides to randomly leave the project one day and your account is gone forever. I've seen it happen multiple times and it's why I go for bigger or at the very least, long standing instances.

[meldrik@lemmy.wtf]

Wouldn’t really make much of a difference in what server you choose, if the goal is to get “away” from Lemmy.world. The majority of users is from there.

Maybe it’s not the server, but more the community that’s an issue for you?

[captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works]

I'm on sh.itjust.works. Which is actually run like a democracy, funnily enough.

According to a post made in our Main Community, sh.itjust.works is the fifth largest Lemmy instance by total posts, after lemmy.world, hexbear.net, www.hexbear.net, and lemmygrad.ml. So figuring Hexbear got duplicated, and anyway hexbear and lemmygrad are commonly defederated with because tankies, that puts sh.itjust.works at #2 on this side of the Silicon Curtain.

It shows lemmy.world at 390k total posts, with sh.itjust.works at 65k. Sh.itjust.works has very, very few of THE communities people use. !Games[email protected] is the biggest one by subscriber count.

So sh.itjust.works is a popular place to access other instances from, and I think others like lemm.ee and lemmy.ca are in the same boat.

"Join this instance, they're not as radical left as lemmy.whatever" misses the point. Who cares which door of the building you walked in through when everyone congregates in the same room anyway?

[dragontypewyvern@midwest.social]

"I just got yelled at because I can't be Left wing unless I want to destroy capitalism?

Based

[michaelmrose@lemmy.world]

Why not just join non-political communities and focus on the content that they enjoy. If people are nervous about meeting assholes on the internet perhaps they should stick to cable tv or netflix.

[murmelade@lemmy.ml]

I got told to go back to reddit on my very first comment.

[alpacachariot@lemmy.world]

Ouch.

Is your username a reference to this song by the way? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4LWIP7SAjY

[cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

[murmelade@lemmy.ml]

Not really, 'murmel' means 'marmot' in Swedish but it's often taken already so I've just evolved it into a marmalade-pun

[barsoap@lemm.ee]

I can’t be Left wing unless I want to destroy capitalism?

Yes. Yes indeed you can't. How to go about that is up for grabs but if you think that leftism is all about preserving the system that allows oligarchs to accumulate more capital and power, to allow a minority to exploit the majority, I don't know what to tell you.

...besides that you're probably American because only y'all are so damn confused about the whole topic.

[3dmvr@lemm.ee]

Fediverse is anticapitalism at its core, it's a way to escape ads and money influencing algorithims and what can be said. If you don't like power to the people, join truth.social or some other unfederated instance.

[barsoap@lemm.ee]

Socdems are leftist, even if you might disagree with their whole non-revolutionary approach. Definitely more leftist than the billionaire-creating CCP which yes is in the G20. China is part of that club.

[barsoap@lemm.ee]

Adam Smith, in modern terms, would be a social liberal. Probably some kind of ordoliberal. It's Marx where the modern definition of capitalism comes from and it's pretty much "what capitalists do, systemically, to stay in power": Accumulate their capital, evade regulation, generate monopolies, seek rents, etc.

[barsoap@lemm.ee]

They very much expect the SPD to defend things like co-determination laws to the death, though. They also expect the SPD to implement referenda that say that landlords with over 1000 apartments should be expropriated, that they're dragging their feet on that kind of stuff ("but the markets might get uneasy and that would have consequences") is one of the reasons why they don't poll well.

Can you imagine a US city the size of Berlin pushing through a referendum to expropriate landowners? That's how far apart the overton windows are. There's hardly even overlap.